Pork

🇷🇼Rwanda

Akabenz

Fried pork pieces seasoned with lime and chili, served with onions; a popular bar snack in Kigali's Nyamirambo district and beyond; the name is rumoured to come from Mercedes Benz, though the connection is unclear.

🇦🇸American Samoa

American Samoa Pua'a

Pua'a

Whole pig slow-roasted in the umu until the skin is crisp and the meat is tender; the centerpiece of American Samoan fiafia feasts, weddings, funerals, and other celebrations.

🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda

Antiguan Souse

Souse

Spicy soup made with pigs' feet, knuckles, and tails with many onions; a popular Carnival snack sold by vendors on the side of the road; pickled in lime juice with cucumbers and hot peppers; a traditional Antiguan street food; the souse of Antigua; a festive and communal dish.

🇨🇻Cape Verde

Antonense Preserved Pork

Conserva de Carne de Porco

Preserved pork from Santo Antão, salted and stored as a method of keeping meat without refrigeration, used in stews and feijoada.

🇮🇹Tuscany, Italy

Arista

In Tuscany, Arista is Tuscan pork loin roasted with garlic, rosemary, oil, and wine.

🇨🇱Chile

Arrollado Huaso

Rolled pork flank stuffed with herbs and spices, a traditional Chilean country dish, tender and well-seasoned.

🇰🇭Cambodia

Bai Sach Chrouk

បាយសាច់ជ្រូក

Thinly sliced grilled pork over rice, marinated in coconut milk or soy and garlic, served with pickled cucumber and a bowl of clear broth.

🇧🇧Barbados

Bajan Souse

Souse

Boiled pork cuts cooled and steeped in a pickle of lime juice, cucumber, onion, parsley and scotch bonnet, served cold and dripping.

🇮🇩Bali, Indonesia

Balinese Roast Pig

Babi Guling

Balinese roast suckling pig stuffed with bumbu Bali spices and roasted over spit fire.

🇨🇭Bern, Switzerland

Bernese Platter

Berner Platte

A loaded platter of smoked pork, boiled beef, bacon, sausages and pigs' trotters on sauerkraut or green beans with potatoes.

🇩🇪Berlin, Germany

Boiled Pork Knuckle

Eisbein

Berlin dish of cured or pickled pork knuckle boiled with vegetables and herbs, served on sauerkraut with mashed potatoes.

🇰🇷South Korea

Boiled Pork Wraps

보쌈

Thinly sliced boiled pork belly served with cabbage wraps, kimchi, radish kimchi, and ssamjang, a classic dish often paired with jokbal.

🇮🇹Apulia, Italy

Bombette

In Puglia, Bombette is Puglian pork rolls filled with cheese and herbs, grilled brown.

🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnian Sarma

Sarma

A Bosnian dish of pickled cabbage leaves stuffed with minced beef or lamb, rice, onion and paprika, slow-simmered in a flavourful broth, often with smoked meat.

🇫🇷Occitanie, France

Bougnette du Haut-Languedoc

Bougnette du Haut-Languedoc is a seasoned pork-and-bread mixture shaped into a cake and fried until crisp.

🇮🇹Tuscany, Italy

Braciole ubriache (Pork Cutlets in Wine)

In Tuscany, Braciole ubriache are pork cutlets cooked in red wine with garlic and herbs.

🇭🇺Hungary

Brassói Roast

Brassói aprópecsenye

Brassói roast is diced pork and potatoes pan-fried with onions, bacon, and paprika.

🇱🇻Latvia

Breaded Pork Cutlet

Karbonāde

Pounded pork cutlet breaded and fried, served with chanterelle sauce, stewed cabbage, pickles or boiled potatoes.

🇷🇺Russia

Buzhenina

Буженина

Pork loin or ham brined then slowly poached and baked to a pale roast, the Eastern Slavic holiday cold cut sliced thin.

🇩🇪Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Bötel

Bötel is a Saxony-Anhalt pork knuckle dish, usually cured and boiled or roasted until the skin turns crisp over tender meat.

🇪🇸Canary Islands, Spain

Canarian Fiesta Pork

Carne Fiesta

In the Canary Islands, Carne fiesta is Canarian pork marinated with garlic, paprika, vinegar, wine, and herbs before frying.

🇪🇸Canary Islands, Spain

Canarian Pork with Toasted Corn

Cochino con millo

In the Canary Islands, Cochino with millo is Canarian pork cooked with toasted corn, garlic, spices, and pan sauce.

🇳🇨New Caledonia

Caramel Pork

Porc au Caramel

Porc au caramel is pork braised in a dark caramel, soy, and aromatic sauce, a Vietnamese-diaspora preparation established in New Caledonia.

🇵🇹Alentejo, Portugal

Carne de Porco à Alentejana

Fried pork and clams with potatoes, garlic, and cilantro, a surf-and-turf classic.

🇵🇷Puerto Rico

Carne Frita de Cerdo

Puerto Rican fried pork chunks, marinated in adobo and garlic, then fried until the outside is shatteringly crisp.

🇨🇳China

Chairman Mao's Red-Braised Pork

毛氏红烧肉

A Hunan version of red-braised pork belly, caramelised with rock sugar and soy sauce until glossy, with chilli and star anise, Mao Zedong favourite dish.

🇧🇴Tarija, Bolivia

Chancho a la Cruz

Tarija specialty: whole suckling pig roasted on a cross over fire for 5-7 hours, social celebration dish, served with mote and llajwa

🇵🇪Peru

Chancho al Palo

Huaral-style pork roasted slowly on a wooden spit until the skin blisters and crisps.

🇨🇷Costa Rica

Chicharrones

A Cuban fried pork rinds, crispy and salty, a street and daily classic

🇧🇴Bolivia

Chicharrón

A Bolivian dish of fried pork with corn, potatoes, and llajwa, a festive and hearty classic.

🇨🇴Antioquia, Colombia

Chicharrón

Colombian deep-fried pork rind, crispy and golden, served with arepa, lime, and aji. A staple of bandeja paisa and a popular street snack nationwide.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Chicharrón de Cerdo

Dominican fried pork rinds, crispy and golden, served with lime, hot sauce, and tostones. A street and asado staple, crunchy and savory.

🇵🇪Arequipa, Peru

Chicharrón Peruano

Crispy fried pork chunks with skin and meat, served with mint sauce and sweet potatoes.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic

Chicharrón Prieto

A Dominican dark, crispy pork rind variant, fried longer until deep golden and crunchy. A street and asado snack, intense and savory, served with lime.

🇲🇽Puebla, Mexico

Chiles en Nogada

Poblano chiles stuffed with a savory-sweet picadillo of meat and dried fruits, covered in a creamy walnut sauce and pomegranate seeds.

🇲🇽Sinaloa, Mexico

Chilorio

A Sinaloa pork dish of shredded pork cooked down in dried chiles until almost dry and deeply flavored.